[quote author=Κηφᾶς link=topic=10973.msg133028#msg133028 date=1300152173]
+ Irini nem ehmot,
My we have certainly wandered off from the OP.
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Yes.
Lightening, you are in an interesting situation. Orthodoxy is open to you, but I recommend …
Lightning,
Did your wife marry you and then become orthodox, or did she become orthodox before her marriage to you?
If your wife was already orthodox and has married you outside the church, she is considered ex communicated from the orthodox churc…
[quote author=anba bola link=topic=10973.msg133016#msg133016 date=1300149548]
Zoxsasi,
No one disagrees with you about what you just wrote. The thing is, that wasn't thes situation with Fr. Peter or with lightening.
Maybe I'm the one misunderstan…
Bola,
I was speaking of the condition where an orthodox chrisitian married a non orthodox chrisitian.
As far as I am and have been aware, this will result in that person being refused Holy communion.
I cannot believe that no one here has come …
Me too. I gained tremendously in the catholic church.
They are dear to my heart, but I feel their lack of orthodoxy is not what I need, but I miss them very much.
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10977.msg132998#msg132998 date=1300143488]
Just because there are lots of things on Youtube doesn't mean that it is wise to add to the list.
I am creating a website called Discovering Orthodoxy where people wil…
[quote author=LifeInDeath link=topic=10973.msg132990#msg132990 date=1300141915]
Speaking of the Eucharist - I wonder how God will unite us since we seem to be so good at fighting with one another.
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Can I say the names of the priests and Bis…
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10977.msg132996#msg132996 date=1300142972]
Well in the first place it is not a lecture for Protestants, and in the second place I believe that Youtube is an ocean of trivia in which those things of value are los…
[quote author=dzheremi link=topic=10935.msg132936#msg132936 date=1300126186]
Hmm. If you don't mind me asking, why did it matter to you what the Catholic Church also bans, Zoxsasi? I'm curious because I left that communion rather recently, and some …
[quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=10973.msg132979#msg132979 date=1300141211]
i don't know where you are getting your information from...but this doesn't happen.....at all.
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Check with your priest.
Thanks
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10973.msg132986#msg132986 date=1300141546]
No that's not the case. He said he is married to an Orthodox Christian, not that he married one.
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OK.. If she was baptised Orthodox and she married him, she'd …
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10973.msg132980#msg132980 date=1300141227]
What has that example got to do with any of the cases mentioned on this thread?
We are talking about people who are non-Orthodox and marry a non-Orthodox and one of th…
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10973.msg132976#msg132976 date=1300140879]
Why would she have to repent for marrying someone before being Orthodox?
She has nothing to repent of at all and is not liable to any excommunication.
I married my wi…
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10973.msg132973#msg132973 date=1300140549]
That's not true.
When I became Orthodox my wife was not. So I was Orthodox and she was not. This is the same for a great many converts.
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Yes, OK.. but they ob…
"... i discovered that the CHurch did not disappear during the time of the apostles..." and then you say: ".. I was frustrated that I had not been told about any of these writers before " - the writers who showed that the apostolic church had not di…
[quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=10935.msg132960#msg132960 date=1300138890]
[quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=10935.msg132935#msg132935 date=1300125906]
Fr. Peter,
This really worries me.. because I HAD reached a point of not taking the priest's…
[quote author=lightening link=topic=10973.msg132946#msg132946 date=1300132483]
zoxasis, i think you don't find my 'agenda' boring. i think you quite like it!! otherwise you would not reply with so much pathos.
the misunderstanding about 'the questi…
Fr. Peter,
This really worries me.. because I HAD reached a point of not taking the priest's comments seriously about certain things because I felt that what they were saying was influenced by culture.. not necessarily christianity. Obviously that …
[quote author=dzheremi link=topic=10935.msg132933#msg132933 date=1300125270]
I would hope that going to Protestant churches would be more readily banned (or discouraged, if they're effectively the same as Zoxsasi says) than watching movies or having…
For example, as an Egyptian Christian, if a priest told me that drinking wine (occassionally) is wrong, and he disapproves of it, for me I would have a psychological problem or conscience issue with drinking wine. I'd feel its as good as banned.
I …
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10935.msg132927#msg132927 date=1300124188]
I am not sure what you mean? To discourage something is not the same as forbidding it.
If you have a particular issue in mind you should discuss it with your spiritual…
[quote author=minatasgeel link=topic=10935.msg132872#msg132872 date=1300066207]
[quote author=Zoxsasi link=topic=10935.msg132871#msg132871 date=1300065916]
Arrrgghh...
I hate word-games. "We discourage it, but we don't ban it".
The Coptic Orthod…
[quote author=Father Peter link=topic=10962.msg132920#msg132920 date=1300123021]
Muslims aren't monophysites.
Monophysites (i.e us) were accused of believing that Christ was not truly human as well as Divine. They claimed that we taught that His hu…
I find it remarkable that Luther attacks Islam when he himself is just as guilty as attacking the Holy Apostolic Church of God.
What he did has led to feuds and divisions within the Church, yet he has the audacity to attack Islam? lol...
[quote author=aidan link=topic=10962.msg132910#msg132910 date=1300107997]
I'm surprised Fr Peter hasn't corrected you Zoxasi but as far as I'm aware monophysite refers to the one DIVINE nature of Christ, not the human one. Although Copts aren'y mono…
Meena,
Protestants/Evangelicals tend to want to convert you to their twisted ideology. They do not even have the decency like muslims who at least ask questions about Christ's Divinity (for example). They come, they do not read anything, and they j…